Partition Values : Median divides a data item series into two eaqual series. A series can be divided into four, five, eight, ten and hundred equal parts, using the principle of median. Therefore, the values which divide the series into multiple parts are called partition value. Partition values divide the series into the median, quadrant, pentant, octant, decatant and centatant, respectively, or 2, 4, 5, 8, 10 and 100 parts respectively.
